Vivid portraits of Kabuki actors on and off stage, warriors, legendary heroes and heroines; depictions of courage, loyalty, romance, passion, ghosts, dreams, and the beauty of the natural world - all are encompassed by the prints included in Masterful Illusions. The richly illustrated book includes essays by an international group of scholars that elucidate the historic, economic, and cultural environment of Edo period Japan. Beginning in the early nineteenth century, European collections of Japanese prints were gathered ...
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Vivid portraits of Kabuki actors on and off stage, warriors, legendary heroes and heroines; depictions of courage, loyalty, romance, passion, ghosts, dreams, and the beauty of the natural world - all are encompassed by the prints included in Masterful Illusions. The richly illustrated book includes essays by an international group of scholars that elucidate the historic, economic, and cultural environment of Edo period Japan. Beginning in the early nineteenth century, European collections of Japanese prints were gathered and transported far from the vibrant urban centers of Edo period (1615-1868) Japan, and today foreign collectors continue to be fascinated by Japanese prints. The collection of Anne van Biema, one of few women to become a serious collector of Japanese prints, reveals her fascination with the vigorous imagery from the Kabuki theater in the urban metropolises of Edo (now Tokyo) and Osaka, in heroic feats from Japanese history and legend, magic, dreams, and the supernatural. A less numerous but important group of prints express the beauty of nature, landscape, and poetic themes. The collection is noteworthy for its inclusion of early Kabuki actor prints, substantial holdings of prints by the artists Toyokuni (1769-1825) and Kuniyoshi (1797-1861), and of Osaka actor prints. Among the works by Kuniyoshi is a complete set of his series of fantastic stories associated with the twelve animals of the annual cycle. Ann Yonemura is senior associate curator of Japanese art at the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Other contributors include Donald Keene, Columbia University; Elizabeth de Sabato Swinton, Harvard University; and Joshua Scott Mostow, University of British Columbia.
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VG. Light blue & color illus. wraps, French flaps, 362 pp. 133 color plates, many BW illustrations. Issued in conjunction with a 2002-2003 exhibition "of Japanese prints from the Edu period (1615-1868). They come from a colelction of more than three hundred ukioy-e prints acquired by Anne van Biema since the 1960s, and represent her personal choices from the tens of thousands of woodblock prints published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The prints selected for this publication and exhibition reveal how artistic imagination and superlative technical skill combined to create compelling images of the actors and courtesans of the urban demimonde, legendary heroes and villains, classical and contemporary literary themes. and the natural world." (dj) With thematic essays by Ann Yonemura, C. Andrew Gerstle, Elizabeth de Sabato Swinton, and Joshua A. Mostow. The main illustrated and annotated catalogue showcases 133 prints in full color; additional entries in the collection are included as small listings with BW illus. Includes a chronology of Japanese historical periods, a glossary of Japanese terms, a bibliography, and fine illustrations.
Add this copy of Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints in the Anne Van to cart. $59.50, very good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution / Univ. of....
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VG/VG (light sunning to board edges. bump crease to back spine edge. dj has scuffs & edge-wear) Olive cloth boards w/ gilt printing. 362 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. illustrated & blue dustjacket w/ white printing. Remains a nice, bright copy. Issued in conjunction with a 2002-2003 exhibition "of Japanese prints from the Edu period (1615-1868). They come from a colelction of more than three hundred ukioy-e prints acquired by Anne van Biema since the 1960s, and represent her personal choices from the tens of thousands of woodblock prints published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The prints selected for this publication and exhibition reveal how artistic imagination and superlative technical skill combined to create compelling images of the actors and courtesans of the urban demimonde, legendary heroes and villains, classical and contemporary literary themes. and the natural world." (dj) With thematic essays by Ann Yonemura, C. Andrew Gerstle, Elizabeth de Sabato Swinton, and Joshua A. Mostow. The main illustrated and annotated catalogue showcases 133 prints in full color; additional entries in the collection are included as small listings with BW illus. Includes a chronology of Japanese historical periods, a glossary of Japanese terms, a bibliography, and fine illustrations.
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